Ropes names new global managing partner in latest leadership shakeup
Ropes & Gray is continuing to refresh its leadership team, naming real estate transactions head David Djaha as the firm’s next managing partner.
Eight firms win EDF panel spots as roster drops 50%
Energy company EDF Energy has completed its panel review, cutting its roster down by nearly 50 per cent to eight firms. Freshly-merged firms Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang are new additions to the panel, The Lawyer can reveal. When the wheels of the review were still in rotation, BCLP […]
Accounts Committee queries Linklaters' £13m rail bonanza
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Government for the way it paid Linklaters & Paines more than £13m for advice on the sale of the first three rail franchises. The report criticises the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, Opraf, for not using a competitive tender to choose Linklaters and for not […]
Transatlantic law firm mergers a decade on: happy ever after?
A cohort of UK firms have entered into US mergers over the years, but did they lose their souls as well as their names?
Three women get the nod in 10-strong Fieldfisher promotions round
Ropes names new global managing partner in latest leadership shakeup
Ropes & Gray is continuing to refresh its leadership team, naming real estate transactions head David Djaha as the firm’s next managing partner.
Eight firms win EDF panel spots as roster drops 50%
Energy company EDF Energy has completed its panel review, cutting its roster down by nearly 50 per cent to eight firms. Freshly-merged firms Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang are new additions to the panel, The Lawyer can reveal. When the wheels of the review were still in rotation, BCLP […]
Accounts Committee queries Linklaters' £13m rail bonanza
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Government for the way it paid Linklaters & Paines more than £13m for advice on the sale of the first three rail franchises. The report criticises the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, Opraf, for not using a competitive tender to choose Linklaters and for not […]
Transatlantic law firm mergers a decade on: happy ever after?
A cohort of UK firms have entered into US mergers over the years, but did they lose their souls as well as their names?
Reed Smith bags Nabarro trio for City funds launch
Reed Smith has launched a London investment funds practice with the hire of former Nabarro partner and barrister Dale Gabbert. Gabbert, who joins as a partner, will bring with him associates Winston Penhall and Matthew Pitman. He will advise funds including private equity, property and hedge funds on investment management, corporate and regulatory issues. Reed […]
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Finance lawyers dominate in FTSE350 in-house teams
Almost half of all the lawyers at the companies in the current FTSE350 that have a UK-based in-house legal team work in the banking and finance sector, The Lawyer can reveal. According to data compiled for the new FTSE350 report, 40 per cent of the lawyers tracked at in-house teams in the UK work for […]
The speed read: Clifford Chance’s canny graduate strategy; bye-bye Ballheimer; and 2020 predictions
Firms serious about bagging the best graduate talent should take a look at Clifford Chance A few years back, a bunch of firms set up events for first-year law undergraduates – a group long ignored on the milkround in favour of second and third-years. We predicted what seemed like the obvious conclusion: the war for […]
Shearman and King & Spalding lead on takeover of Eddie Stobart
A pair of US firms have advised on the takeover bid of haulage company Eddie Stobart as its shareholders have approved its rescue by asset manager DBAY Advisors. King & Spalding’s London corporate partners William Charnley and Marcus Young advised Eddie Stobart, which had to secure £55m bailout funding from Douglas Bay Advisors, on the […]
A&O and ENSafrica lead on South African Airways rescue
South African firm ENSafrica and Allen & Overy are leading on the business recovery of one of Africa’s largest airlines, South African Airways, saving it from collapse. ENSafrica’s chairman Michael Katz is leading for the airline on behalf of the National Treasury of South Africa, which manages its national economic policy. South African Airways is […]
Jones Day set to bid farewell to Russia with office closure
Jones Day is to shut its doors in Moscow, The Lawyer understands, after setting up in Russia 16 years ago. The decision means the US firm will no longer have a fixed presence in the country, with the closure expected later this year. Jones Day initially entered the Russian legal market back in 2003, with a total […]
Mayer Brown jumps on innovation bandwagon with new ’embrio’ programme
Mayer Brown’s managing partner Jeremy Clay is backing a new global innovation plan to trial new technologies.